The Sunday Briefing: Jason "TeamWispy" Helder Wins Sunday Million

Posted at 13:30 2012-10-02 by Mickey Doft

It was back to business as usual on the virtual felt this weekend as the Sunday Million and Sunday Warm-Up were back up and running following the conclusion of the 2012 World Championship of Online Poker. The day's big winner was Jason "TeamWispy" Helder, winning the Sunday Million outright for $201,962.16. Chris "NigDawG" Brammer was victorious on Sunday, too.

Despite entering the final table with 15 big blinds, Jason "TeamWispy" Helder navigated his way to the heads-up duel with "parrish09," who began the final table with nearly half the chips in play. Helder began with a slight chip lead and despite losing it for a bit, he regained the lead and soon emerged victorious. With , Helder bested "parrish09's" when the board ran out .

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Buy-in

Entrants

Prize Pool

$200+$15

3,312

$662,400

David "My Brim Low" Ivers (14th - $2,980.80) and Geoff "GeoffRas22" Rasmussen (17th - $1,987.20) just missed out on the final table of the Sunday Warm-Up. A three-handed deal was made at the final table, and in the end, Sweden's "_slowb0y_1" emerged victorious for $87,773.98.

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The $109 Sunday Rebuy attracted 927 entrants, creating a prize pool of $304,600. Bryan "theczar19" Piccioli (13th - $2,589.10), Marco "NoraFlum" Johnson (17th - $1,979.90), and Ashley "DYBYDX" Mason (24th - $1,370.70) posted impressive showings in the event. A five-handed deal was made at the final table and "AverageGreg" grabbed the victory, along with more than $46,253.73.

Place

Player

Prize

*1

AverageGreg

$46,253.73

*2

Daviant

$25,880.51

*3

BriDge2PaiN

$27,693.99

*4

MrKloutt

$32,063.36

*5

toode

$35,638.41

6

Steven "SvZff" van Zadelhoff

$12,945.50

7

orzechinho19

$9,899.50

8

ManiacRazor

$6,853.50

9

kung_ivo

$4,294.86

*denotes five-handed deal

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Entrants

Prize Pool

$100+$9

2,896

$289,600

Flavius "puicachamp" Puica (12th - $1,810) and Nicolas "Nocturnick" Leger (19th - $868.80) fell just short of the Bigger $109 final table. Following a four-handed deal, "Tim Piper" emerged with the win for nearly $33,988.50, besting a field of 2,896.

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